222757 - Mozilla always asks "what should Mozilla do with this file" even when configured not to

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193698

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Graham Leggett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030807
Build Identifier: Mozilla v1.5 final (Windows 2000)

- Install v1.5 final on Windows 2000.

- Click on a PDF document (in our case the PDF is generated on the fly).

- Mozilla asks "what should Mozilla do with this file"?

- Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator -> Helper Apps and select
application/pdf, then click "edit".

- See that "Always ask me before handling files of this type" is UNchecked.

Correct behaviour: if this tab is unchecked, then Mozilla should not ask the
user how to handle PDF files, but rather follow the instructions given to
Mozilla in the application/pdf configuration.

When saving these settings, Mozilla warns that it handles PDFs internally. It is
possible that this "internal handling" is ignoring the user defined settings,
which is broken.

This is delaying a rollout of Mozilla in our enterprise, as users find this
extra unnecessary confirmation very irritating.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See above

Comment 1

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

under "When a file of this type is encountered",
which radio button do you have seleted: 
"open it using the default app" 
"open it with _________ " or
"save it to disk" ?

Comment 2

[Graham Leggett]

The first one: "Open it using the default application".

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

What's the content-disposition header sent by the server?

Comment 4

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

it sounds like you have the pdf plugin installed, and the server sends
Content-Disposition:attachment. sending no Content-Disposition header, or
sending inline instead of attachment, should cause the plugin to be used for
showing the pdf.
newer mozilla versions should indicate that the dialog is displayed because the
server requested external handling

Comment 5

[Graham Leggett]

Just checked: the server was sending Content-Disposition: attachment instead of
inline.

Is it not possible to make the popup box clearer that the behaviour is at the
request of the server, and is overriding the settings of the client?

Regards,
Graham
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Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Graham, see comment 4.  In current builds, the dialog box says:

   The site has suggested that "xxxxx" be handled as an attachment. It
   is of type foo/bar and located at:

Marking duplicate of the bug that changed the text to this....

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193698 ***